OK, hold on to your hats: the American Medical Association says that drinking coffee is good, eating eggs is good but eating margarine, which they once touted as a way to prevent heart attacks, is BAD.
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In her new diary, Anne talks about how to find wisdom in something as simple–and profound–as a little red string.
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In the US, we give cattle antibiotics because, instead of letting them graze exclusively on grass, we fatten them up on corn in feedlots, which they are not able to handle well. This makes it possible for ranchers to raise more cattle per acre. Feedlot corn also produces the marbling that makes steaks so appealing. But what are the these antibiotics doing to US?
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We think of early men as hunters, but prehistoric people were hunted as well, by gigantic birds as well as big cats. But at least we got even with the cats?there is evidence that eating early humans gave them ulcers.
A fossil of a “missing link” that was once assumed to have been killed by a leopard or saber-toothed tiger is now thought to have been killed by a giant predatory bird. In LiveScience.com, Alexandra Zavis quotes paelo- anthropologist Lee Berger as saying, “These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared.”
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